Tarot Life Cards

Connie Lehman's Tarot Life Cards run twenty-two majors toward personal development: the trumps as life themes, growth work carried in tarot's big-arcana format without the fifty-six cards of dailiness. The self-help framing places it in the nineties current that read the majors as a development curriculum, each trump a workshop station, closer to the era's growth literature than to fortune-telling. The record is thin, but the format speaks: majors-only development decks assume the archetypal passages are the point, initiation democratized into self-improvement, which is both the current's charm and its critics' complaint. Lehman's entry documents the genre at its most direct. It suits personal-development readers who want the arcana as framework, majors-only users of the reflective kind, nineties self-help completists, and coaches drawing session themes. Readers who want life's small weather alongside its passages need the full structure, which the growth genre, perhaps tellingly, tended to skip.